flash player in Suse 10.1
 

Anyone got this working?

I've never cared about flash before, so I've never bothered to install it. Now I happend to find a page that uses flash, but I seem unable to get it to work.

I've tried installing with both the rpm package provided on the Suse CDs, and with the package from macromedia's site.

In Firefox, about:plugins gives this information:
Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r63

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

So it seems firefox found the plugin, but it just does not want to work. I get no error messages or anything, just a blank page, when I try a page with flash.

Flash and Shockwave Flash are 2 different things. There is currently no native support for shockwave flash player in linux. There are ways to install it under wine, as I've installed flash 8 under it.

I don't care about shockwave. Just flashplayer. For example, what I think they use on video.google.com.

If you download the thing, whatever it's named, from macromedia's site or an from an rpm site, (and there is a linux version of that, named flash-player - Macromedia Flash Plug-In).
However, if you download that thing, it will contain two files:
flashplayer.xpt
libflashplayer.so
These two files go into the browser plugin directory (for example /usr/lib/browser-plugins/)
The install does that.

If you then start Firefox, and type about: plugins (no space between : and p),
firefox says:
Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r63

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

Clearly, it has found the file. I don't care if its named Flash or Flash Shockwave or whatever - as the thing comes in a linux version, it should be possible to use it.

So, my question, again, is, does anyone know what could be the problem?

I've tried both Suse's rpm and Macromedia's package.
I notice one difference if I unistall - then the browser complains that I haven't got a plugin. That's the only difference.
I use a 32bit processor. AMD 1.3Ghz

Got it, sorry for the confusion. The only other suggestion I have is to copy it to your local plugin directory.

$HOME/.mozilla/plugins

You are correct that these are the only 2 files needed for flash to work.
flashplayer.xpt
libflashplayer.so

Sorry again for the confusion on my part,
Pete

Thanks. I'll try that when I get home today.

No problem, it's just that I got quite annoyed over this flashplayer.. I never wanted it before, as it seems unstable (I've tried it in windows and it hanged the computer every now and then), so I didn't want to pollute my Linux computer with crap. But now that I use adblock, I've heard that it's possible to block flash as well, and just use it where I want to use it.
And when I finally install it, it doesn't work, and I think I spent an hour installing/uninstalling and moving the files around...

Staffan

I solved this problem by moving the .mozilla folder away. Apparently it was something in there that made it not work.